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Frederik Wellmann

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c. 1895

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A. MS.

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Several definitions of "mathematics," including Aristotle's and CSP's. Mathematical proof and probable reasoning the system and scale of quantity the importance of quantity for mathematics. But to grasp the nature of mathematics is to grasp the three elements, which, with regard to consciousness, are feeling, consciousness of opposition, and consciousness of the clustering of ideas into sets. Recognition of the three elements in the three kinds of signs logicians employ. An analysis of the syllogism.